Toys museum
We organized "Toy Museum" in which were, besides toys made in Tiny hands atelier, Croatian traditional wooden toys painted by hand, which are under the protection of UNESCO as cultural heritage. We also exhibited photos of traditional toys that were made by grandparents from our region, which we obtained in collaboration with the students of the University of Zagreb, Department of Teacher Education Faculty in ÄŒakovec. All of the toys were displayed in our kindergarten. As the project grew, so did our museum as well. Shelves got bigger and number of toys increased.
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Traditional toys
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• Traditional toys, like our grandmothers used to have, were all made of natural materials. They played all together. Small and big kids, older and younger.. It did not play a role when it come to play. They were all together. Hardly any child had bought toys or one that would be produced by industry. They were expensive and parents could not afford such a toy. But they did not care for such toys. They were happy and satisfied with what they have and what they themselves could do showing their creativity and imagination. Dolls were made out of different materials, such as wool, yarn, wood, corn leaves... They also made balls out of fabric, making a small lump and stiching it together so they could play with it. In autunm children would collect natural materials like nuts and make boats out of their shelves or chestnuts for makeing all kinds of animals.
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Old toys
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• One of our project activities is to form a virtual toys museum to show each country’s old and traditional toys. With the help from our parents and colleagues we gathered many toys and asked them to tell us something about them. Here is what they told us:
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Owner: Tea Approximate year: 1983. “This is one of my first dolls. I got it from my mother's cousin. Her name is Tamara so I named this doll after her.”
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Owner: Tea Approximate year: 1985. “I got this abacus in the middle of 1980's. It was very helpful when I started to learn mathematic...”
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Owner: Tea Approximate year: 1920. “This teddy bear is in my family for generations. I got it when I was a child, it belonged to one of my oldest relatives.�
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Owner: Sven Approximate year: 1994. “I remember playing out on the street with my older sister and friends from neighborhood. Girls were playing with dolls and we, boys, with cars...�
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Owner: Sven Pirker Approximate year: 1998. “Tetris was first digital toy which I remember... We could play it for hours!”
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Owner: Zoran Approximate year: early 1960's
“My father brought this cachets from work. My older sister and I, we used to play “office”. It was our way to peek into world of adults.”
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Owner: Zoran Approximate year: 1963. “My father made this sling for me. I was trying to target the sparrow but instead of that, I broke my neighbor's window. My father had to apologize for me, it was unpleasant situation.�
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Owner: Zoran Approximate year: 1960's “I remember, it was a real experience for us kids to watch pictures on this picture disk. It was like making our own cartoon! We enjoyed it so much...�
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Owner: Vlasta Approximate year: 1982.
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Owner: Vlasta Approximate year: 1979.
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Owner: Vlasta Approximate year: 1966. “After my father died, my aunt wanted to make me feel better so she offered me to buy me a doll, the one with dark hair. It would be my first doll with hair. I liked the blond one more so she bought me both... I'm keeping them, they remind me on hardest times in my life but also on people around me who cared and they still do.�
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UNESCO heritage traditional manufacturing of children’s wooden toys in Hrvatsko Zagorje
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Wooden children’s toys are recognizable traditional products of Hrvatsko zagorje with a long history. Precisely in this area, a peculiar production of toys was developed in the 19th century and it has been preserved in some villages such as Laz, Stubica, Tugonica and Marija Bistrica. All these villages are on the route to the greatest pilgrimage site in Croatia - Marija Bistrica. From very simple reed toys, the assortment widened so that, at times, one hundred and twenty different toys were produced. The method of their production was passed on from generation to generation in some families and has been kept to this day. The peculiarity is that they are handmade by men and mostly painted by women. There can never be two completely identical toys since each one is handmade. The material used is soft wood from the area, willow, lime, beech and maple that craftsmen hew after drying and then cut and shape it with the help of wooden or cardboard models. In painting they use eco paint and their base colours are usually red, yellow or blue. They paint the toys with floral and geometrical ornaments. Today, about fifty types of toys are made, ranging from various reeds, tamburitzas, animal toys and objects of common use.
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